"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room."

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."

"I'm not really a children's writer. I'm a writer who writes for children."

"I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind."

"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!"